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HFD102 HF
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Bro. Michael Oladimeji

Training Modules
ACCELERATED HOUSE FELLOWSHIP LEADERSHIP
From the General Overseer PROGRAM
1. The Church of Christ
2. Church Planting MODULE 2 - HFD102
3.
Successful House Fellowship
Development System
ISBN: 978-978-58539-1-9
Church Planting
4. Church Growth
5. Christian Leadership
6. Aggressive Evangelism
Partnering with Christ in Church Planting and House Fellowship Development
7. The Follow Up Ministry
1. Introduction
8. Building an Effective Team
Mentoring Ministry In 2. Objectives and Pre - Test
9.
Housefellowship 3. Course Content
Growing a Mega Church Through
10. a. The need for Church Planting
Housefellowship
b.
Why don’t we plant more Churches?
c. Reasons for Church Planting

d. What Church Planting is not

e.
Scriptural Stand for Church Planting
f. The Cost of Church Planting

g.
Basic Principles for Church Planting
h. Process of Church Planting

i.
How to Plant Churches in different areas:
4. Summary

5. Post-Test

6. References

BIBLE PASSAGE:
Matthew 16: 17 - 19

MEMORY VERSE:
“And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There stood a man of
Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and
help us.” Acts 16:9

Introduction
The Church is established to mature converts so that they too will go out and win others. The
purpose of the church is: to find the lost, to fold them into the church, to feed them with the word
of God and to field them back into their world where they can continue finding. May the Almighty
help us to fulfill the purpose of the church as we go into the study in Jesus name, Amen.

OBJECTIVES
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
1. Identify the need for Church Planting.
2. State some of the reasons why Christians refuse to plant more churches.
3. Mention some reasons for Church Planting
4. Explain what Church Planting is not
5. Give Scriptural stand for Church Planting.
6. State the Cost of Church Planting
7. List basic principles, which are essential to Church Planting:

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8. Discuss the process of Church Planting

9. Describe how to plant Churches in different Areas

PRE-TEST
1. Describe the Church
2. State the purpose of the Church

1.
THE NEED FOR CHURCH PLANTING
The need to plant more churches is great and overwhelming. The missionary call today is more
insistent and soul stirring, they are:

a) Missionary call from heaven, Isaiah 6:8

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said
I, Here am I; send me.”
Isaiah 6:8

b) Missionary call from hell, Luke 16:27 – 28

“Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of
torment.”
Luke 16:27 – 28

c) Missionary call from the heathen, Acts 16:9

“And a Vision appeared unto Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed
him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us”.
Acts 16:9

2.
WHY DON’T WE PLANT MORE
CHURCHES?
The following are some of the reasons why Christians refuse to plant more churches.
a. Lack of Missionary vision, Proverbs 29:18.
b. Lack of thorough understanding of the great commission, Mathew 28:19 – 20.
c. Ignorance of tremendous benefits of Church Planting
d. Difficulties encountered by earlier church planters.
e. Lack of adequate funds, personnel, and infrastructure.
f. Wrong approach and wrong timing by would be church planter.
g. Lack of good planning, prayer and problem of insensitivity to God’s Spirit.

3.
REASONS FOR CHURCH PLANTING
There are many scriptural reasons for church planting. These include:
a. Church planting is a sign of total obedience to the great commission – Matt 28: 19 – 20. It is a
natural consequence of preaching the gospel.
b. Church planting is necessary for the support, nurturing and teaching of new believers – Acts
2: 42 – 47.
c. Church planting is an old, and a well established tradition of the Church. Church Planting and
evangelism have always been going hand in hand from the earliest days of the proclamation
of the risen Christ.
d. Church Planting ensures the survival of denomination. It is a means of reversing or stalling
the decline in churches. Church planting stimulates new age groups, otherwise we will be left
with old Churches and old membership.
e. Church planting develops new leadership. The existence of new churches opens wide the
doors of leadership and ministry challenges, and the entire body of Christ thereby benefit
from it.
f. Church planting stimulates existence of new churches and arouses the other old churches,
which are whereby challenged to work harder by devising new plans to retain, enlarge and
feed their congregation.
g. Church planting is the singular most effective method of evangelism as against the others like
crusade, revivals, outreaches, etc. these other methods of evangelism are recruiting grounds
while the church is the retaining house.
h. Church planting is a key to reaching the unreached.

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i. New churches grow better than old ones because of the potential for growth that is built into
new churches which the old churches no longer possess.
j. Church planting easily caters for the new generation worshippers. The immediate effect of
rapid culture change is that many members of the new generation can hardly be won to
Christ in their parent’s churches. The planting of new churches could however be used to
overcome age or cultural barrier.

4.
WHAT CHURCH PLANTING IS NOT
There are many activities that resemble church planting. Church planting is none of the following:
a. Church planting is not ordinary denominational extension. It is not a mother church spreading
out and producing daughter churches without actually caring for the type of souls or people
attending such churches
b. Church planting is not fostering syncretism.
c. Church planting is not the same as quantity taking over from quality.
d. Church planting is neither a new idea nor an innovation. It is an old, and a well established
tradition of the Church. Church Planting and evangelism have always been going hand in hand
from the earliest days of the proclamation of the risen Christ.
e. Church Planting is not a shoddy business. It involves lots of sacrifice, devotion and hard work.

5.
SCRIPTURAL STAND FOR CHURCH
PLANTING
The following are scriptural stand for church planting:
a. Every believer is expected to bear fruits, John 15:1 – 8, 16.
b. The message in any church planting exercise is the message that Jesus brought from His
Father – Acts 2; 4:31 - 35; These are the good news of God, Mark 1:15; the new birth, John
3:3; God’s love for mankind is universal, John 3: 16 – 18; and, love as the greatest of all
commandments, Matt. 22: 37 – 40; John 15: 12.
c. The presence of the Holy Spirit among the believers provided the dynamics for the planting
and growth of the church in its earliest days. Acts 6: 7.
d. The strategy of church planting was given to the early church by Jesus and can be seen in the
scriptures – Acts 1:8; 13:5; 14:1; 13:46; 19:9;

6.
THE COST OF CHURCH PLANTING
To plant new churches is not for the weak, faint hearted and easily discouraged believers because
the price is high. The cost of Church planting includes the following:
a. Serious intensive prayers and fasting.
b. Budgeting and Capital outlay.
c. Releasing committed and proven members to man the newly planted church.
d. Training, equipping and mobilizing brethren to become involved.
e. Planning programs and setting goals for churches that will be planted yearly.

7.
BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR CHURCH
PLANTING
The following basic principles are essential to Church Planting:
a. Close personal relationship with God.
b. Clear call from God commissioning the organization to plant churches.
c. Clear vision of the task, the strategy and the objectives to be achieved.
d. Careful preparation and training.
e. Obedience or total submission to God.
f. Walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.
g. Adequate knowledge of the area and of the people. These include an understanding of
environmental factor, the language, culture, customs, belief and history of the people.

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8.
PROCESS OF CHURCH PLANTING
There are, at least, ten ways to plant a church. These include:
a. Spontaneous start off: This is a process whereby the membership of a local church are
challenged to form a nucleus, and at a predetermined time, these people will move out
under the leadership of a church planter and become the charter members of a new
congregation. They will not have to make a residential move.
b. Colonization: Here a new church is planted in a different geographical area, which implies
that the nucleus members will make a move and find new homes, new jobs and new schools
in the targeted community.
c. Adoption: Church Adoption, like human adoption, means that someone else gives birth but
the child becomes part of your family.
d. Accidental Parenthood: Sometimes over leadership struggle, doctrinal disputes or
disagreement on priorities, a congregation will split. One faction will pull out, start another
congregation, and the congregation will prosper more than the former parish.
e. The Mission team: Here a Church planting agency recruits, finances and sponsors a team of
workers to plant a new church or churches.
f. The catalytic church planter: The goal of this group is to go into a new area, develop a
nucleus for a new church, and then move on and do it again and again.
g. The Independent church planters: These move out on their own to start new church through
a vision and call from the Lord.
h. Multi – Congregational churches: These ministers to several ethnic groups. Some multi –
congregational churches simply share facilities with ethnic congregations that maintain their
own autonomy.
i. Bible College Students / Workers in training: Church could be made a condition for the
award of the Bible College Certificate / Diploma.
j. Daughter Churches: This is a process whereby an existing congregation takes her God given
duty to establishing an annex church that will be nurtured up to maturity.

9.
HOW TO PLANT CHURCHES IN
DIFFERENT AREAS
Churches can be planted in the following areas:
a. Rural Areas
b. Sub urban areas
c. Urban areas
d. Slums
e. Urban Industrial Areas
f. Government Reservation areas
g. Quarters and Immigration areas
h. Muslim people

a. How to plant churches in rural areas:

Start through personal evangelism / personal contact, while, (at the same time) studying the
culture, customs, beliefs and history of the people.
Depending on the environmental factor and culture of the people, you can contact the
paramount chief or head of the village for a piece of land on which the church will be
planted.
Start a home cell group meeting. This can be established in the house of one of your
converts, a shop in the village or a school, if the village has any that is available.
Conduct a Crusade and start church services.

b. How to plant churches in sub urban areas:

A sub urban area is an outlying area of a large town or city. Such an area is usually more activity
oriented than a rural area. To start a church in a sub urban area, the following steps are
recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact, while, (at the same time) studying the
culture, customs, beliefs and history of the people.
Start a home cell group meeting. This can be established in the house of one of your
converts, a shop or a school.
Conduct a Crusade and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat or a school building.
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.
Aim at creating leaders. It is not difficult to discover men and women with leadership
qualities in sub urban areas. This is due to the fact that sub urban areas are generally
occupied by middle class population groups – teachers, civil servants, youth corps members,
etc.
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c. How to plant churches in urban areas:

To start a church in urban areas, the following steps are recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact, while, (at the same time) studying the
culture, customs, beliefs and history of the people.
Start a home cell group meeting. This can be established in the house of one of your
converts, a shop or a school.
Conduct a Crusade and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat or a school building.
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.

d. How to plant churches in Slums:

To start a church in slums, the following steps are recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact, while, (at the same time) studying the
culture, customs, beliefs and history of the people.
Start a home cell group meeting. This can be established in the house of one of your
converts, a shop or a school.
Conduct a Crusade and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat or a school building.
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.
Introduce ministry of help. You must be ready to spend on the people without expecting
much from them, at the initial stage. This is because a slum is characterized by economic
recession, unemployment is high, there is high crime rate and inhabitants are usually of multi
dimensional cultural diversity, which implies that there is no homogenous community in a
typical slum.

e. How to plant churches in urban industrial areas:

The urban industrial areas are usually the most forgotten and neglected parts of the country in
spiritual matters. Such areas are characterized by the following factors:
1. Few people live in such areas
2. Houses are scattered in between industries

To start a church in urban industrial areas, the following steps are recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact, while, (at the same time) studying the
culture, customs, beliefs and history of the people.
Start a home cell group meeting. This can be established as lunch hour fellowships in some of
the industries
Conduct series of indoor revival meetings and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat, abandoned
industrial building or a school building.
Launch the church with much publicity
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.

f. How to plant churches in Government Reservation Areas:

To start a church in government reservation areas or among elites the following steps are
recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact (through telephone and personal
visitation) while, (at the same time) studying the culture, customs, beliefs and history of the
people.
Start a home cell group meeting.
Conduct a crusade and series of in door revival meetings and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat, abandoned
industrial building or a school building.
Launch the church with much publicity. With the help of your converts and influential mature
believers:
Print invitation cards
Invite important dignitaries
Make the celebration standard and interesting
Invite a Christian band
Your message should be evangelistic, persuasive and powerful
Entertain the audience: give them light refreshment and non alcoholic drinks.
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.

g. How to plant churches in Quarters and Immigration Areas:

To start a church in quarters and immigration areas or among elites, the following steps are
recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact (through telephone and personal
visitation) while, (at the same time) studying the culture, customs, beliefs and history of the
people.
Start a home cell group meeting.
Conduct a crusade and series of in door revival meetings and start church services.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat, abandoned
industrial building or a school building.
Launch the church with much publicity. With the help of your converts and influential mature
believers:
Print invitation cards
Invite important dignitaries
Make the celebration standard and interesting
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Invite a Christian band

Your message should be evangelistic, persuasive and powerful
Entertain the audience: give them light refreshment and non alcoholic drinks.
Prayerfully locate and buy a piece of land on which the church will be planted.

h. How to plant churches among Muslim peoples:

To start a church among Muslim people, the following steps are recommended:
Start through personal evangelism / personal contact (through telephone and personal
visitation) while, (at the same time) studying the culture, customs, beliefs and history of the
people.
Use your women or female converts to share the gospel with the Muslim women in Purdah.
Start a home cell group meeting.
Accommodate your converts in a rented apartment, a ware house, a flat, etc
No need for a crusade at the initial stage.
Plant your church and be prepared for persecution

Note that Muslim converts require lots of love and care because they are usually neglected and
persecuted by their relations, friends and acquaintances.

SUMMARY
Church Planting is not ordinary denominational extension neither is it a shoddy business. It is a
scriptural venture that involves lots of sacrifice, devotion and hard work. How serious are you about
Church Planting? Decide to be actively involved in Church planting.

Churches can be planted in Rural Areas, Sub urban areas, Urban areas, Slums, Urban Industrial
Areas, Government Reservation areas, Quarters and Immigration areas and among Muslim people.
Decide to be actively involved in church planting today.

POST TEST
1. State what Church Planting is not.
2. Mention some scriptural stand for Church Planting.
3. In what areas can churches be planted? Discuss.
4. Explain how churches can be planted in rural and urban areas.

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Anderson, Andy, ‘Where Action Is’. Nashville: Broadham, 1976.

Boer, R. H. A. short History of the Early Church, Wm. B. Eardams Publishing Company, Grand Rapids,
Michigan.

Fitts, Bob, Saturation Church Planting – Multiplying Congregations Through House Churches, World
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Fuller, L.K, Going to the Nations, An Introduction to Cross Cultural Missions, NEMI, Nigeria.

Gangel, Kenneth O. ‘You and Your Spiritual Gifts’, Chicago: Moody, 1975.

Gerber, Vergil, ‘God’s Way To Keep a Church Going &Growing’, Glendale, Calif: Regal, 1973.

Henrichs, Walter G. ‘Disciples Are Made – Not Born’, Wheaton III: Victor, 1975.

Howell, Allison, A Daily Guide for Language and Culture Learning, NEMI, Nigeria.

Mc. Eaurun, Donald A., and Arn, Win. ‘How To Grow A Church’, Glendale, Calif: Regal, 1973

Onuigbo Sam, Oral English For Schools and Colleges, Africana Fep Publishers Limited, Book House,
79 Akwa Road, Onitsha, Nigeria.

Wagner, C. Peter, ‘Your Church Can Grow’, Glendale, Calif.: Regal 1976.

Waldo J. Werning, Vision and Strategy For Church Growth, Moody Press, Chicago 1977.

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